8:50 am: Men’s triple jump final

The favorites: Christian Taylor (USA), Will Claye (USA), Dong Bin (China), Alexis Copello (Cuba)Americans: Taylor, Claye, Chris BenardCanadians: noneBet worth taking: A Claye win pays 4:1.
Taylor is a huge favorite to win, and Claye is probably the next best in the field. The evening could be a bit of a Gator chomp, since both were teammates at Florida.

10:05am: Women’s 100m hurdles heats

Qualifying format: The first three in each of six heats plus the next six fastest will go to the semifinals.The favorites: Brianna Rollins (USA), Kristi Castlin (USA), Nia Ali (USA), Cindy Roleder (Germany), Alina Talay (Belarus), Tiffany Porter (Great Britain), Cindy Ofili (Great Britain)Americans: Rollins, Castlin, AliCanadians: Phylicia George, Nikkita Holder, Angela Whyte
The USA is so strong in this event that the 6th-place finisher at the Olympic Trials recently broke the world record. If you want an outsider to pull for in the heats, Angela Whyte is your woman; this is her 16th year of competing at the international level.

Evening Session

The Schedule

There are three big finals tonight, the men’s high jump, women’s 1500 meters, and men’s 110 meter hurdles.

7:30pm: Men’s high jump final

The favorites: Bogdan Bondarenko (Ukraine), Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar), Derek Drouin (Canada), Erik Kynard (USA), Guowei Zhang (China)American: KynardCanadian: DrouinBet worth taking: Kynard pays 10:1 to win.
The vertical jumps are always a little hard to predict, but it certainly appears that the medals will come from the five favorites listed above. Barshim and Bondarenko have the most upside, but haven’t been clearing the same stunning heights this year that they did in 2014. Kynard used to be the most inconsistent of the top jumpers but retooled over the winter and is now one of the most consistent.

7:40pm: Men’s 110 Hurdles semifinals

Qualifying format: The top two in each of three heats plus the next two fastest will go to the final, held later in the evening.The favorites: Omar McLeod (Jamaica), Devon Allen (USA), Dimitri Bascou (France), Ronnie Ash (USA), Orlando Ortega (Spain), Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (France)Americans: Allen, Ash, Jeff PorterCanadians: Johnathan CabralKevin Sully previewed this for us. The semis and the final are both tonight. McLeod has been the best of the year so far, but Allen is doing things no young hurdler has done since Skeets Nehemiah in the late 70s.

8:10pm: Women’s 400m hurdle semifinals

Qualifying format: The top two in each of three heats plus the next two fastest will go to the final.The favorites: Dalilah Muhammad (USA), Sara Slott Petersen (Denmark), Eilidh Doyle (Great Britain), Zuzana Hejnová (Czech Republic), Ashley Spencer (USA), Sydney McLaughlin (USA)Americans: Muhammad, Spencer, McLaughlinCanadians: Noelle Montcalm, Sage Watson
17-year-old McLaughlin will be the center of attention, but she’ll have to run a lot better here than she did in last night’s heats in order to make the final.

8:35pm: Men’s 400m hurdle semifinals

Qualifying format: The top two in each of three heats plus the next two fastest will go to the final.The favorites: Kerron Clement (USA), Yasmani Copello Escobar (Turkey), Javier Culson (Puerto Rico), Nicholas Bett (Kenya)Americans: Clement, Byron RobinsonCanadians: none